How can I lock my iPad?

Long story short, my iPad is acting up and sometimes it moves on its own.

I want to read eBooks on it, but it gets difficult when it starts randomly changing pages, zooming in and out, etc.

Is there a way to lock my iPad in the same way you could lock your iPod classic, iPod nano and iPod shuffle? That would prevent it from acting up while I'm reading a page. When I want to change pages, I would simply unlock, change page, then lock it again.

1. do you want to read in landscape or portrait mode?
2. why do you want to lock and unlock every page?
3. when you say zooming in and out all the time - that doesn't happen in iBooks - so you're saying it just does it on it's own?
4. do you have Both Margins Advance turned on in Settings > iBooks - it could be you keep putting a finger or thumb in the margins causing it to flip pages?
5. anything else you can say tell us about how your using your iPad for for iBooks - what model iPad do you have?

1. do you want to read in landscape or portrait mode?
2. why do you want to lock and unlock every page?
3. when you say zooming in and out all the time - that doesn't happen in iBooks - so you're saying it just does it on it's own?
4. do you have Both Margins Advance turned on in Settings > iBooks - it could be you keep putting a finger or thumb in the margins causing it to flip pages?
5. anything else you can say tell us about how your using your iPad for for iBooks - what model iPad do you have?

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1. Portrait.
2. To prevent it from acting up while I'm reading a page.
3. Yes.
4. No, I don't, but it happens everywhere and anywhere randomly. Whether it's in iBooks or not.
5. iPad Mini. Latest Firmware update for it. The screen is broken a bit.

It does it a few times. It's not always, but it's annoying nonetheless when it happens.
It's likely a hardware problem (screen or whatnot), but since the warranty on it is over, instead of fixing it or buying a new iPad, I figured I'd just use the screen-lock option apple had on the classic iPods. To my surprise, there isn't any.

When you swiped the button, it would lock any movement on your iPod. Meaning that it wouldn't allow you to click/wheel or even it close it and the screen would still stay open. You can watch a video and lock your iPod to prevent any unnecessary clicking. That's what I'm looking to do with my iPad while I'm reading.

Long story short, my iPad is acting up and sometimes it moves on its own.

I want to read eBooks on it, but it gets difficult when it starts randomly changing pages, zooming in and out, etc.

Is there a way to lock my iPad in the same way you could lock your iPod classic, iPod nano and iPod shuffle? That would prevent it from acting up while I'm reading a page. When I want to change pages, I would simply unlock, change page, then lock it again.

Wonder if a Restart/Reset would be too much to hope for as a simple solution?

The iPad is behaving unpredictably because it has a broken screen. It's kind of like asking, "Does my car have a feature for driving with a broken steering wheel?"

If the screen is broken, it is incapable of interpreting touch as designed. There's a grid of tiny wires embedded in the screen for detecting touch. Some of them are broken - they may be contributing to the false appearance of a touch, they may fail to detect a touch, they may mis-report the location of a touch.... Who knows how many ways a broken screen might mis-interpret/mis-report a touch?

Even if a feature existed that would do as you asked when the screen is working normally, you cannot be sure it would work correctly when the touchscreen is broken.

There's a saying in computing: Garbage in, garbage out. Your touchscreen is sending garbage to the CPU. You figure out the rest.

I'm sorry your screen is broken - if I broke the screen to my six-year-old, first-generation iPad, I wouldn't pay to replace it, either. But there are times when you have to accept that broke is broke. Pleading with an online forum for a solution isn't going to make one magically appear.

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